Collapsible chair



Sept. 3, 1940.

A. G. PARRY COLLAPSIBLE CHAIR vFiled Oct. 27, 1937 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY6 Patented Sept. 3, 1940 UNITED STATES COLLAPSIBLE CHA IR Amos G. Parry, Granville, N. Y., assignor to The Telescope Folding Furniture Company, Inc., Granville, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application October 27, 1937, Serial No. 171,187

1 Claim.

This invention relates to collapsible chairs and has for an object the provision in such a chair of means for easily and quickly adjusting the back portion from a sitting position to a prone position and intermediate positions.

In a chair embodying the invention, the front and rear legs have terminal pivotal connections at their upper ends and the back and seat portions are pivotally connected by means which ,pivotally support the back from the rear legs. Adjustable connections are provided between the front ends of the arms and one set of legs near their juncture with the other set of legs. These connections are of such a type that they may be adjusted merely by lifting the front ends of the arms to arrange the back portion in any one of several positions between sitting position and prone reclining position.

Other objects, novel features and advantages of this inventionwill become apparent from the following specification and accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. l is a side elevation of a chair embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary enlarged section substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

The chair is provided with a set of front legs Ill and a set. of rear legs II, which are joined together near their upper extremities by pivot pins I2. A seat portion I3 is attached to the front legs I!) by pivot pins [4 and is attached 35 to a back portion I5 by pins l6 having extensions which rest upon the rear legs ll. Links I1 are pivotally connected at one end to the pins l6 and at the other end are pivoted to rear legs II by rivets l8. A strip IQ of canvas or other 40 suitable material is attached at one end to the front end of the seat portion l3 and at the other end to the upper end of the back portion [5 and serves as the actual support for the person using the chair.

4 At the front ends of the rear legs II are attached brackets each having an upstanding portion provided with an opening 2|. Arms 22 are connected at their rear ends to the back portion by pivot pins 23 and have at their front 50 ends guide members 24 having offset ends attached to the under surface of the arms. Each guide member 24 extends through the opening 2! in a bracket 20. A plate 25 engages the bottom? face of each arm 22 and is held in place 55 by the same screws which attach the guide member 24 to thearm. Each plate 25 has a downwardly extending flange provided with a plurality of inclined slots or notches 26 in which the topof the bracket 20 is selectively receivable.

an The plate 25 is also provided with a second downwardly extending flange 25 which overlies the notches and the upper end of the bracket 2i] to prevent injury to a person by insertion of the fingers between the guide member and the flange 25 The normal sitting position of the chair is shown in full lines in Fig. 1, while the adjusted position is shown in dotted lines. The back I5 is moved from the position shown in full lines to the position shown in dotted lines merely by lifting the front ends of the arms 22 to disengage the rearmost notches 26 from the brackets 20 (see Fig. 2) and move the arms rearwardly and then downwardly to engage the next notch 26 over the bracket 20. If it is desired to move the back into full reclining or prone position, the same operation is repeated, but with the foremost notches 26 eventually received over the brackets 20. Adjustment of the back may be effected by a person occupying the'chair without getting up therefrom as it is necessary only to lift the front ends of the arms and then move them backwardly or forwardly according to the adjustment desired. The inclination of the notches 26 prevents accidental disengagement thereof from the brackets thereby preventing accidental movement of the back from its erect to its proneposition and facilitates movement of the back from its rearmost to its foremost position.

I claim:

A collapsible chair comprising front and rear legs having terminal pivotal connections at their upper extremities, seat and back portions having pivotal connection with each other and with the rear legs, pivotal connections between the front ends of said seat portions and said front legs, arms connected at their rear ends to the back portions, a one-piece apertured bracket attached to each rear leg adjacent its pivotal connection with the front leg, a sheet metal guide member supported by each arm and having an offset portion passing through the bracket aperture, and a sheet metal plate attached to each arm and having a portion bent downwardly to form a flange, said flange having cut-out portions in its bottom edge providing a plurality of slots in which said bracket is selectively receivable whereby the position of the back portions may be adjusted by lifting the front ends of the arms and moving said arms forwardly or rearwardly, said slots having downwardly inclined portions extending rearwardly to facilitate for- Ward movement of the arms and prevent accidental rearward movement thereof and each plate having a second portion bent downwardly to form a flange overlying a portion of the guide member and the upper end of said bracket.

AMOS G. PARRY. 

